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  After ging to the provided yukata, we all had a te breakfast. I let the others explore and rex, most of the girls, including my mom, auntie Hana, and Marika-san’s moing to check out the open air baths for females, while my father, uncle and the two Izumi males went to the men’s baths. Still, I had other things to do first, and Chiyo-san agreed. Her granddaughters had goo the baths, but she, along with the two kami, Shaeu, Eri and my sis, all gathered in my room, where Chiyo-san unfolded a tourist map of Kyoto, with the promi shrines and temples dispyed.

  “Here is the current political situation in Kyoto.” She indicated the marks in four colours. “Blue is faally ral shrines. As you see, in Kyoto rality is difficult. So foolish.” She shook her head, irritated. “Nearly every shrine in Kyoto is a true one, and all the major ones are, as even shrines and temples destroyed and rebuilt retaiheir bloodlines and were resettled, or where bloodlines died out to disease, misfortune or war, other shrine families would establish a branch to take over. So I suppose it’s only natural…”

  “Hey, what’s the differeweeriangles and the circles?” My sis asked, showing she aying attention. Seeing my w gaze, she stuck her to at me, amused.

  “Well, those are the shrines of the fa leaders.” Chiyo-san said. “Though to call Kegon-ji the head of the ral shrines is wrong. It is just old man Bankei has the rgest voice outside of the three fas. So I have belled it as such.” She sighed. “His shrine is retively new anyway, built ieey-three. Through the liself is true, having moved from a prior temple that was destroyed. But enough of that.” She tinued. “Ryōan-ji is where that old swine Kudou Yasuhide heads the Tsukuyomi fa. They are middle-of-the-road feters, but should be one you try to gain influeh. Then you likely have to piy one from the other two. Kiyomizu-dera and the Susanoo fa, led by Uchida Ren, would seem the natural choice, as you have support from Hiroto-kun and the other lesser shrines of the fa from Tokyo. Even so…” she paused, before pointing to the red circle. “… at Kinkaku-ji, Saionji Gin heads the Amaterasu fa. They are the most bold at wishing for the shrines and temples tain their former influence. He is somewhat of a snake, smug and ing, but… if you wao increase the power of the shrines, he would be your ally. Though he would no doubt want to take the lion’s share of the bes, the sly bastard.”

  “So, blue for ral, red for Amaterasu, yellow for Tsukuyomi, and green for Susanoo. I see.” My sis decred. “But…” I saw where her finger ointing, and it was something I had pondered as well.

  “Yes, Kinkaku-ji and Ryōan-ji are practically right door.” Chiyo-san smirked. “The two of them often butt heads.”

  “Well, normally that would just be a funny ce. But with the Boundary such as it is… that could be problematic.”

  “Indeed.” Shaeu agreed. “Aories established would likely overp, causing great-great flict. I fear kami and more could be caught itles.”

  “There are sssome who dwell here, I have little doubt.” Shirohebi said, the jade beetle eg him. “Asss well asss darker beingsss.”

  “The Night Parade.” Shaeu clutched my hand tightly, and I squeezed her back reassuringly.

  “Yes. And we’ll e into tact with them, I have no doubt. In a way, it’s lucky we are lodging oskirts of Kyoto. We start building a power base here in the Boundary if we o. Though if we decide for Haru-san to drop her Territory here, that would cause problems in the loerm, as she wouldn’t be able to leave Kyoto easily then. Hmm… no, what we need is to win over a didate from Kyoto, or ohat es to cve and has a deployable Territory.”

  “See, this is why Eri or I should be able to do that.” My sis said. “Why ’t you help us with that, bro?”

  “Silly Aiko.” Eri chided her. “Then you or I would be stu Kyoto too. What about school? I don’t care, but you have your Uni exams after Christmas, right?”

  “I guess.” My sis was abashed. “Still… it isn’t fair. I want to be able to help more, like Shaeu and Hyath does. Hell, even this Shiro girl , right?”

  Not wanting to talk about Shiro noas rec ba Tokyo with the best medical care the military and money could provide, I ged the subject a little. “Well, no use wishing for what we ’t do, but I have some ideas. Give me time, okay, Eri, sis?”

  At their nods, I pohe map. “I think we o find out where all the Territories are. As well as whies affect the Material. Sihe shrines and temples are rgely owned by the families in charge, I expect that we tell a lot by ether density, though Kyoto seems to have a noticeably higher ohan Tokyo in general.”

  “Kyoto isss a sssacred pce for kami. Many are enssshrined here.” Shirohebi crified. “Ssspiritual power remainsss freely flowing from the nd here.”

  “Lucky. Though I guess it has dowoo.” I muttered. “Well, there are also smaller shrines dotted about that might be relevant too. We’ll have to make annotations to the map as appropriate. So, we know what we o do.” At everyone’s nods, I turned back to Chiyo-san. “So, yoing to go around the ral shrines, ahis Bankei-san, right?”

  “Indeed. I shall take my zy granddaughters, when they have finished pying i springs…” She s that. “… and make the rounds, seeing some old faces and new. I will show off the spiritual awakening you bestowed on my granddaughters, and see if I ’t persuade some to try it themselves. You do it, if needed, right?”

  “I . My skills have gone up, and I’ve been practising a lot on soldiers. I do thirty without too much trouble.”

  “I doubt we will have that many takers.” She ughed. “But if we do, I’ll prioritise. You’ll want to save some strength for the three fas, right?”

  “I assist too-too.” Shaeu promised. “Besides, we will be entering the Boundary here, and I rather-rather expect trouble. We replenish our aether by defeating the foes that will likely front us here, we not-not?”

  At that I agreed. “Yeah, and we might well find a det number of Etherites too, if the didates here don’t know the value of them.” That would please Ixitt, and I really want a blue one for Haru-san, so that when she does decide to pce her Territory, she use it to reach Rank 2 with defenear instantly. I don’t regret saving Shiro, not o, but even so, losing the blue Etherite was a blow…

  “So anyway, I have a question.” Eri asked. “Are all the shrines in fas based on their enshrined kami od?”

  “No, not at all.” Chiyo-san shook her head. “Though some kami naturally lend themselves to one fa or ahe family that runs the shrine will dictate which fa a shrine belongs to, and this may shift over the geions. So… nothing is set in sto rgely depends oher they believe that the faith should step out of the shadows and take power.”

  “I see.” Eri nodded. “So if we start our own fa, then that wouldn’t be anything strange…”

  “Ambitious.” Shaeu ughed, giving Eri a hug, leading to giggles all around. “You are starting to think like a female of Akio’s, I do-do approve!”

  Aliyah, who was quietly from the er, choked on her soup, Trey spping her on the batil she stopped coughing. Seeing that, I rolled my eyes at her, and she had the grace to look down, embarrassed. Damn, and people say I’m a pervert. She’s got cute girls on the brain more than I do. Oh well, she’s a fighter. That could be useful here. Though I hope it won’t be needed, we have to pn for the worst…

  “I thiing up a new fa would be nigh-impossible, even with the support of the Hikawa brat and the ral shrines.” Chiyo-san mused. “But… then, you do have support from Takakura-sama too, I believe. Nobility is disliked, as while they are also hidden in modern times, for mauries they enjoyed greater power than the shrines. Even so, his words carry weight. Oh well, it is time for me to move these old bones.” Standing, she o us, before opening the door to the female baths, calling her granddaughters, telling them to hurry up and finish.

  “All right then. Well, we have some time, want to check out the baths?” My sis said. “You’ve got a private one, right?”

  “I don’t think that’s a good idea, Aiko. You should use the unal bath.” Eri said, flushed, and my sis paused.

  “Oh. Yeah. That huh? Makes sense. Damn, all three?” she looked at me, and I nodded, a touch shamefaced.

  “Wow, damn. You keep blowing my mind, bro. Just… keep it down, all right? I don’t want dad, uncle and auting mad. Besides, Marika- is too young to hear that sort of thing, right?”

  “We shall be good.” Shaeu promised, standing, pullio my feet by the hand she still held. With the other she gestured to Hyath. “e. It is time-time to attend to Akio.”

  “Hyath is always ready fooor that!” she giggled, and my sis sighed.

  “All right. I’m going into the unal bath then. Try not to take too long, I want to do some sightseeing before the b stuff starts, all right?” with that, she headed into the baths. With Hyath and Eri on one side of me, Shaeu oher, we headed into my private room, past the bedding, and out onto the wooden terrace, where a rather -spring was bubbling away, casting steam into the warming m air.

  “This is nice.” Eri sighed. “So, shall we go in?”

  “Yes, we should.” Shaeu said, tying up her hair with an ornate hair stick, to keep it out of the water. “I did-did rather enjoy when I made love ihtub. This should be quite-quite the treat too.” She lifted the hem of her yukata, before wading into the hot water.

  “You should rinse off first.” Eri called to her, looking at the wooden buckets, but she just returned a grin.

  “Why? We are alone here, and just-just going to get dirty again.”

  “It’s bad mao dirty the spring, but… oh fet it.” Eri too pulled up her yukata, revealing her legs, and stepped in. “This is the perfect temperature!” she sighed happily.

  I exged a look with Hyath. “Well, we might as well get in then, right?”

  “I wooould love to!” she giggled. “Akio.” Now that we were alone, well, with just me and what she termed the mistresses, she was back to intimacy with me. Following the lead of the others, she ehe spring, her yukata growing damp and ging to her curves, turning transparent. Gulping my saliva, I quickly shrugged my own yukata off, and at that I noticed three pairs of eyes, amber, bd violet, all looking at me greedily. Three at once, huh? Is this heaven or hell?

  The water was indeed perfect, and I spshed over to the girls. As I did so, Eri loosehe chest part of her wet yukata, and I could see her ample breasts, her nipples hard. She was flushed from both heat and arousal, and on seeing my eager gaze, and my eager dick, as it grew hard on seeing her, she giggled a little. “Like what you see?”

  “Always. I ’t believe I was su idiot to almost let you get away.” I ughed. “I know anime and manga has a huge thing about childhood friends losing, but I’m gd you won!”

  “She did not-not win alone.” Shaeu pouted. She had pulled herself out of the water onto the rocks artfully arranged around the spring and spread her legs, short yukata skirt parting to reveal her damp slit, the thin thicket of amber hair around it. Reag down with one hand she ope lewdly, and fluid gushed out. “I won you too-too!”

  As my gaze strayed from her, Eri went further, her yukata sliding to her waist, and then falling off into the water, which amused me as she had pined about poor bathing manners only a moment before. Her own pussy was then spread open, though doing so clearly embarrassed her. Before I could speak though, I felt a weight against me, as Hyath jumped on my back, having already thrown off her own yukata.

  “Hyath will wash yooour back. Stay still…” I felt her rubbing her ample breasts against my back, and could smell the st of her hair as it tickled me.

  “No fair.” Eri pouted, spshing through the water and grabbing my front. Her breasts pushed against me, and she started rubbing me up and down.

  “Hey, you don’t have any soap on you, unlike…” I started to protest, only to have my mouth filled by Shaeu, as she leapt, using her great stats to effortlessly vault over everyone and nd on my face, her pussy smming into me, her arms snaking around me. If not for my own incredible strength I would have fallen, but instead I supported her. My tongue opened up her folds and pushed inside, and as I was familiar with Shaeu’s sensitive spots, she was soon gushing sour love ars and gasping lewdly, her legs tight around my neck.

  “Ah, this… this is bliss.” She moaned. “Eri, did I not-not tell you that to share him would be simply more happiness?”

  “I still think there’s plenty we should do alone. And I still have dreams where Akio never moved away from Nishimorioka, none of this happened, a married, had children, and lived a peaceful, modest life…” I couldn’t see her expression, my face still full of Shaeu as I licked at her, sug on her clit, making her shudder with ecstasy. Still, I imagi was troubled. “… but happy though that would be, it never happened. And this did. And… I’m not unhappy. I like you, Shaeu. I think I like Hyath too. Hinata, Motoko, Natsumi… they are good girls, sheltered but kind. As for Shiro… I don’t know her, but I think…” I felt a hand around my iron-hard dick, toug it gently, a finger rubbing on my gns, my precum staining someone’s fingers. “… if Akio never came into this power, he might have ended up with Shiro. So I’ll learn to like her.”

  I wao answer, but my mouth was full.

  “Kana too. If she ever makes the jump. But I’ll kick her ass if she doesn’t shape up. Her personality isn’t one I care for, but I guess she has a little more depth than I thought.” Eri said, before something warm and hot engulfed my penis, and I could feel her towisting lewdly around it. It was a far-cry from her clumsy efforts of before, and perhaps her high stats allowed her to move her tongue so effortlessly. Her wet sounds joined mine, and then after a while Shaeu asmed, filling my mouth with her fluids.

  “That was… as eaining… as ever. Oh, how sister Shaeranna would be quite-quite embarrassed to see this.” Shaeu said as I lowered her down. She grinned seeing Eri felte me, and turo Hyath.

  “Up you go.” And at her words Hyath needed no invitation, climbing up my bad straddling me. I tasted her love ar as well, the tastes mingling, and with my free hands I started groping Eri’s chest. She moaned, but tinued her pace, and I felt hot magma rising within me. Grabbing her head I pulled her closer, before erupting into my own asm, semen p into her mouth.

  Eri started swallowing, her mouth w, but Shaeu spshed upright, stopping her.

  “Do share.” She grinned, opening wide, to. Eri looked shocked for a moment, before leaning over. She hovered above Shaeu, opened her mouth a some of the sperm flow down, nding oongue.

  “If you were looking for a kiss, I don’t love you like that.” Eri giggled, before jumping up, far higher than was humanely possible. Hyath en-mouthed and gasping, my toimuting her clit and inner folds, so she had no defence as Eri allowed more of the vast volume of cum I sprayed out to spsh down into her open mouth. Stunned, as Eri spshed down Hyath licked her lips, swallowing the sticky cargo.

  “Thank you, mistress Eri. I appreciate it!” she gasped.

  Eri was bright red, but she merely ughed off the thanks. “Well, since Shaeu had sone of my…” she swallowed the rest. “… precious cargo, you should have some too. Seriously, do all guys cum this much, I nearly drowned!” she muttered.

  You know, I never used to myself. The volume isn’t normal, my recovery her. All I think of is my stats have a big effe it., which is a godsend, sidering… To answer my earlier question, as I pulled Hyath down from my face, ign her sudden protests, this was indeed heaven, but if I had the stamina and sexual fun I used to, it would be surely be hell instead.

  “Hyath, I’m going to fuck you.” I said crudely, as such firm orders aroused her servile nature. As she stammered her thanks, I slid my dick slowly into her already loose and sopping pussy, water spshing around us, hot and soothing. She started to squeal as I reached deeper and deeper inside her, and I remembered she was very loud during sex. Shit, I promised to keep the noise down. That was achieved as I sealed her mouth with mine, our toangling sciviously, and with one final thrust I was all in, my diog against her deepest parts.

  “It’s… pretty damn lewd watg, isn’t it?” Eri was remaking to Shaeu as I began to thrust, the overflowing jun between Hyath and me making ever-lewder squelg sounds, her tongue growing more frantic as I hammered away at her, her body vulsily under me as she started having minasms, her body terribly sensitive.

  “Yes, I believe it is. But fun, is it not-not?” Shaeu agreed. “Every time we make love together, I feel so much-much closer to you all. I uand my father better now.” I eyed her expression as I tio savage Hyath’s upper and lower mouths with tongue and penis, her body trembling and red, leaking sweat. She was smiling, one I had seldom seen, utterly tented. “Without Akio, I would not-not have known why my father and the others of the Seelie Court love so widely.”

  “Well, I don’t want him to love too widely, or there’s less for us!” Eri sighed. “But I uand. I don’t want to, but I do. Still, if anyone he loves betrays him…” her expression was scary then, her obsidian eyes hard. “I’ll murder them…”

  “So scary!” Shaeu ughed, and I had to agree. Eri does have yaendances, definitely. She’s very jealous and possessive, though she seems to have reciled those flig urges retly. I hope they don’t go in a weird dire…

  I could feel Hyath melting under me. Her tongue had stopped, though I tio lick at her, sing saliva, and I realised I could taste myself too, which was an odd thing. It’s not so nice. Guess I should thank the girls for swallowing. I remember a drunk Aimi- telling me and Hayato-san most girls spat it out after oral. Damn, why am I remembering that embarrassing night now?

  Going for the final spurt, I accelerated and ged the angle, our wet bodies spping together. Under my sudden attack Hyath was helpless, and her entire body shuddered, arg up out of the water. Her teeth closed, biting down on my tohough it felt merely like a hard kiss with my stats, and as she tiasm, liquid streaming from her pussy, I soon joined her, a massive surge of my own cum filling her insides, her womb greedily drinking it down, more and more overspilling, soaking the hot springs. Oops. Bad manners. Well, it looks like the springs drain into the river anyway… sorry fish!

  “Akiooo, kiss for Hyath?” she ma st, floating face-up in the spring, and I obliged, this time a gentle one.

  “Well, that was rather-rather toug.” Shaeu was sitting on the rocks, legs spread, oozing like a leaking faucet. “It makes me crave it myself. But…” she eyed Eri, who was discretely rubbing herself, her lower body submerged. Her face was crimson and her breath ing fast, as she watched us make love. “…Eri has not e yet. Akio, attend to your first wife, it is not-not good for her to toy with herself too much. It should be yhty penis that spears her, not her fingers.” She ughed lewdly, lig her lips.

  “True.” I patted Hyath o time, groping her rge tits, before striding to Eri, my dick, which had lost a little vigour after the sex, rapidly regaining strength. “Eri, wouldn’t you rather have this?” I grabbed my dick with one hand, flourishing it in her face.

  “Of course I would!” she leapt out of the water, hugging me. “But you were busy! And I was just so horny… seeing you, tasting you. Damn, I want to be with you all the time!”

  “Soon!” I promised her, tangling tongues. I started pying with her pussy myself, flig and rubbing her already enged clit, my other hands toying with her breasts. Pretty big, but a bit smaller than Hyath’s. But they feel different.

  Pulling on her ereipple made her moaongue accelerating, and once again I could taste both her aurning Eri around, I pushed her so her bottom was stig out of the water, pussy and twitg asshole clearly visible, embarrassing and arousing her. With her hands on the rocks, she was helpless to stop my assault. Not that she wao.

  “Akio, I want you!” Eri moaned. “I want this happio st forever!”

  “And so it shall.” Shaeu padded over, pg her hand on one of Eri’s hands, making sure I could see her pussy and small breasts clearly. Hyath dragged her exhausted post-asm body to her feet and took her other hand, slumping down so her own pussy and ass was exposed to me. “The three of us, and the others-others. We have foes to overe, trials to face… but we shall endure, for we are indeed-irether!”

  “That’s right. Now, let’s bee one again, Eri!” I decred, thrusting a finger forwards.

  “Wait, what… eeeeeeh?” Eri squealed, body trying to squirm away, but Shaeu, Hyath and I were holding her. My finger slid into her ass, gently stroking her insides, and she vulsed, tightening up. “That’s not my vagina!” she cried.

  “I know, I thought I’d give this a try. Your body seems to like it.” I let the finger go a little deeper, curving and stroking, and Eri started leaking, pee streaming into the hot spring.

  “It’s strange, I feel weird, hot… ahn!” she gasped as my dick suddenly thrust into her urinating pussy with little warning. I smmed into her womb and slid my finger in and out at the same time, my other hand toying with her breasts and nipples.

  “This… this is crazy! I feel… feel so weird! My body is on fire! Mother, I’m sorry, Eri is crazy, Eri is a dirty girl who loves it when Akio fucks her!”

  “Shh!” I told her. “We are supposed to be quiet, remember?”

  That made her tighten up even more, the shame of being overheard somehow thrilling for her, and making her revert to childish speech patterns. Shaeu let her bite down on her hand, stifling her cries and moans, as I tio assault her with finger and penis. Fuck, this is hot. I think I might be a pervert…

  “Ahn… guh… so deep, both… ahn… holes. I thihinks… she’s a pervert!” she ey thought, and that turned me on. My finger slid totally into her ass, and my dick was somehow hitting her even deeper, and I could feel her womb shiver with every thrust. Leaning over to her, I whispered into her ear. “Eri. I love you. I want you to stay with me forever.”

  Tears of joy sprang from her eyes at my words, and her asm was the rgest she had ever experienced, her pussy squeezing my dick tight, her ass sug at my finger like a greedy mouth. Eyes unfocused, she went limp, but as I was not done, I tio pound and finger her, pushing her ecstasy higher, until I discharged, cum spraying from her pussy and filling her insides.

  “Ah… this warm feeling. Again. I know it well.” She gasped, as my cum streamed down the inside of her thighs, dripping from her slit as I pulled free. As my finger slid from her ass, Shaeu leapt up and started lig it, causio howl in protest.

  “Shaeu! That’s dirty! And embarrassing!”

  “Hardly.” She twirled her tongue around my finger lewdly, before bending down and lig off my soiled dick, sug out the remaining semen in the urethra happily. “It is no-no different to sharing his precious seed.”

  “I think it’s a bit different.” Eri sighed. “But I don’t care. I ’t even think straight right now. Oh gods, did… do you think they heard me?” she couldn’t flush any further, but her eyes were damp with embarrassed tears.

  “I think sooo.” Hyath shrugged. “But they will pretend they did nooot, I imagine. Just go with that, Mistress Eri.”

  “That es ter.” Shaeu kissed me greedily, grabbing my dick. A few strokes from her small hands had it hard again, onaking me marvel at the recovery power of a thousand or more physical stats. “I ot-not endure any longer.” She pushed open her y with my dick, expertly twisting and filing her body to stimute all of it. I was carrying her, my dick popping out of the water to spear her, and from that position I could strike her small body deeply. My free hand roamed over her bottom, and with a savage grin I slid a finger into her asshole as well. She seemed to have expected it, as her kissing became more frantid the movement of her body ged, to drive my finger in deeply as well.

  “You too…” Eri marvelled. “So it looked like that…” her eyes were fixed on where my finger was vioting Shaeu’s ass. “… we are so lewd. I should feel shamed, but…”

  “But it is looove.” Hyath chortled. “Akio did nooot toy with my hole. Am I nooot good enough?” she looked sad, but Eri jumped to my defence.

  “I think Akio hasn’t made love to you as much as us yet, so he’s saving that, right?”

  I nodded, still sug on Shaeu’s lips and tohe third miaste of me and a girl on my own lips. On seeing that, Hyath brightened. “I am happy. Hyath wooould be sad if she was nooo good!”

  Shaeu bit down on my lip then, her nails scratg my back, as she demanded my attention be on her. Apologising silently, I gazed into her bright amber eyes as I tio thrust up inside her, my finger probing, finding the sensitive spots inside her ass. My other hand polished her clit, and I pulled my mouth free from hers, greedily lig at her nipples.

  “Yes, yes… make me yours, dye me with-with your colour!” she cried, and I asked her what colour that was.

  “White of course-course!” she cried. “The colour of our lovemaking!”

  “Fihen!” I bit down on her nipple, making her shudder, speeding up my thrusts, and my assault on her ass and clit intensified a further step. She was shuddering, sour ar dripping into the water below, and her hasps were extremely lewd and scivious. “Shaeu, you’re a princess and a Duchess, yet you are being ravaged sexually. What would your father and siblings think?” I teased her.

  “I do not-not care what they think. If they take… ahn, ugh… issue…” she gasped, her body wriggling and writhing with pleasure. “… then they … piss off.” She swore, before kissing me deeply.

  Damn, is there a cuter princess in the world? If so, I don’t know her… Having made love to Shaeu a number of times now, I knew her body well, and so I shifted, my dick sliding along her entrah each thrust, pierg her sensitive folds of flesh, her ho gushing. Her ass was o me, but I was getting a feel for it, my finger rubbing at various bumps within, causio tighten up with pleasure. Shaeu was moving up and down frantically, matg my thrusts, and as we spped together, she was starting to shudder, s from her flushed flesh.

  “Dye meeeeeee!” She cried as our lips pulled apart, her body shaking as she came fiercely, pussy and ass opening and closily, both holes drooling fluids. I wasn’t quite there, the three priasms havied me a bit, but I tightened my ass, f my body to respond, and as I pistoned into her trembling and dripping body, drivio a sed shuddering asm, I gushed out with a long, sharp cry.

  “Akio, I love-love you!” She wailed, as in her sitting position, hoisted in the air, her pussy overspilled, more cum joining the water below. She kissed me once more, exhausted, before I sat her down on the rocks, pulling out.

  “Hyath’s turn…” she chortled, rushing over to suck at the finger I pulled from Shaeu, and as that happened, my eyes met Eri, who looked embarrassed and flicted.

  “Well, we broke i spring.” I said, sitting down beside Shaeu and Eri, only for Hyath to go between my legs, lig at my limp penis, having ed my finger. I looked surprised, but she gri me, taking my penis in, speaking around it. “I want mooore master! Hyath is horny again!”

  “Well why not? We have time, do we not-not? You want more too, do you not-not, Eri?” Shaeu said, still flushed with her pre-asm afterglow.

  “I… I do.” Eri admitted, and I held in a sigh, my penis growing hard in Hyath’s moist and warm mouth.

  Heaven or hell, huh? Damn, if I pi this, a million lonely men would rise up to hinking such stupid thoughts I reached out, grabbing Hyath’s ass and breasts, and she shifted, her asshole twitg. Knowing what she clearly wanted, I let a finger slide i, f the small hole open…

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  “… I fug hate you.” were the first words Aliyah said to me as we exited my room a couple of hours ter, freshly bathed and dressed in yukata. My sis was watg TV along with several irls, the friends of Kana, mostly, while the others were absent.

  “Uh… could you hear?” I asked, and she nodded, frowning sourly.

  “Out here, enough, yes. The sliding door is surprisingly good at blog sound, must be because it’s a damn high-eablishment, so those in the unal baths probably didn’t, but I damn well did.” She shrugged bitterly, chest heaving. “It was in Japanese, but I got the gist of it. All three, right? Fuck me.”

  “Language, sis!” Trey decred.

  “Shit, yeah… whoops.” She sighed. “Anyway, you have a guest, and she… well, see for yourself.”

  My sis gave us a thumbs-up behind her back, causio blush and Shaeu to snicker, and then my eyes fell on a woman in the er of the room, in a nice suit, looking embarrassed and unfortable.

  “Oh. Haru-san. You made it.” I said, shamefaced. Shit, Haru-san is probably traumatised thinking about sex after what happehat’s not good… Before I could apologise though, Shaeu spoke up.

  “Haru, good to see you. Do not-not mind us and our fun. I uand that you suffered, but do not-not let it blind you to the truth, that love between those who care for each other is quite-quite sublime!”

  Wow, that’s bold.

  “I… I’ll bear that in mind.” She looked down, embarrassed, so I decided to ge the subject.

  “So, everything go okay?” I asked her, and Haru-san, relieved to be back talking about business, nodded.

  “Sorry, some st minute issues came up regarding the new Ministry. You’ve set up the devices for the test site, right?” At my nod she tinued. “Well we had to get stists interviewed, and some of them were insisting on Chirurgery or other simir things as payment instead of money, and we had to start pnning the rigorous and robust testing regimen, and then…” as she rattled off a list of problems, I felt a bit sorry for her, still, she was smiling, perhaps gd to be back doing what she had before her… untimely death… even if it was with a twist.

  “Well, sounds like it’s been hard. Well, this trip is equally as important, but there should be time for some rexation too. Speaking of, where is everyone?” I asked.

  “Kana and her family had to go meet Hikawa-san.” Mio-san said, looking over at me from where she was sitting, watg TV aing snacks. “The snake and the beetle are ih.” she said, using strange niames for them. “They waited until it was empty.”

  “Yeah, and the old woman and the others headed off too. You were ih ages, Akio-kun.” Asami-san chimed in. Her gaze took ihree satisfied-looking girls with me. “Poor Kana-.” She giggled, and strangely enough that earned a look from Takagi-san, who was reading in one er, though I noticed she was still pig at treats. On seeing my look, she smiled a little.

  “Kikuchi-san and her father headed off too. Going to Kinkaku-ji I believe. She said her brother was ing along from Uni too.”

  “And our parents went out to go to a nearby pub.” Aiko said, yawning. Looking at Eri she spoke. “You know… seeing as Kana- has all her friends here, don’t you think we’re a bit mean? Rika- and Yae-… they missed out, despite knowing big bro and Shaeu first.”

  “I don’t think so. There are quite enough girls around.” Eri pouted. “We don’t o involve that idiot duo. Do we?”

  Shaeu ughed nastily. “I have already been chastised for involving Mio, Asami and Hisano, Akio was quite-quite annoyed. But… you do not-nret it, do you?” she asked them.

  “No way! I’d feel bad for Kana- to be doing this all alone!” Mio-san said, and Asami-san echoed her.

  “Yeah, besides, someone o look out for Kana-’s is. She’s so stubborn!” she giggled.

  “I… I’m not sure.” Takagi-san said, pushing at her gsses idly. “I’ve gained a lot from this, I know, but… well, I still don’t get what’s going on. But… I should after this weekend, right?” she said hesitantly.

  “Yeah.” I agreed. “This weekend should put everything into perspective.” I went over to her, kneeling down beside her. “But don’t worry. I won’t have you girls doing anything dangerous. Leave that to me and Shaeu.” I grinned.

  “Hyath toooooo!” she decred, and suddenly a rumbling voice echoed her, Grulgor ing out of the bath in a yukata, muscles rippling, quite the disturbing sight, how annoyingly handsome he was in a rugged sort of way.

  “Grul is looking forward to crushing, smashing and breaking some puny foes! It has been too long since we crushed stupid weak fungi!” his ughter was cruel.

  “Uh, he’s a bit scary!” Mio-san decred, and Asami-san agreed.

  “Well, he’s not going to hurt any of you.” I assured them. “And in a fight he’s a reassuring ally to have.”

  “Ba topic…” My sis said. “You really don’t want Rika- and Yae-? Yae- seems to like you a lot, even now. She still talks about that date sometimes.”

  “Well, there’s no real be. But… well, sis, you know I’ll help you out if you really want something.” I promised.

  “Hey, it’s not like I’m desperate for them to join in. Fet it, maybe ter.” She grinned. “When you work out a way for us to set up a Territory in Nishimorioka, maybe then, okay! That reminds me, Marika- and her family went with Kana’s family. Same fa, right?”

  I that, and realised that was everyone ated for then. “In that case… we have a little time to kill. Want to go sightseeing? Though we should probably stay away from any shrines right now.” I use the time to start making note of Territories as well, do double duty…

  “Hey, how about this, bro?” Aiko flourished a leaflet at me. “There’s a boat cruise that goes along the Katsura river the other way. It takes us north past several shrines on this map, and supposedly the sery is amazing. And they provide food and drink!”

  “You’ll get fat if you keep stuffing yourself, Aiko!” Eri warned, only for my sis to snort, amused, and shut her down.

  “Well, I don’t exercise as vigorously as you do, Eri. It sure sounded like you were w up a sweat.”

  As Eri flushed, and mhter filled the room, I agreed to that suggestion, and we all returo our rooms to get ready…

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  “So, there was definitely a Territory by Tenryu-ji, and there might have been another one south of the river, though I ’t be sure.” I said, making pencil-marks on the map.

  “Wow, bro. I know you want to get stu, but seriously, that cruise was simply geous.” My sis said. We had all ged to street clothes, and had drawn little attention, though otted a number of shrine maidens and priests on the shoing to and fro. “You should appreciate it more!”

  “I did, I did!” I promised, and indeed, it was he trees lining the shore were in their autumn foliage, reds and es extremely attractive, and a fitting match for Kyoto, with all its shrines. “Did everyone else?”

  Eri nodded happily, and Shaeu agreed that the sight was quite aertaining one, hoping that the Spring of Clear Refles would be reforested in such a fashion soon. Kana’s school friends were equally impressed, revelling in the fact they got to skip school to have fun.

  “Easy job.” Aliyah said, and Trey agreed with a slight smile. “If only all esissiohis smooth. But you don’t need us there, do you? You handle anything yourself.” She snorted.

  “True, but they o get used to you.” I gestured to the girls. “If a situation happens, you get them to safety, no matter what.”

  “Fine. You’re the boss.” Trey agreed once more.

  We were back at our lodgings, and it would sooime for people to start returning. Ihe first group back came a few mier, our parents, looking rather tipsy. My mother was half-asleep, with a tented smile on her face, and a drunk auntie Hana stomped over when she saw us, Shaeu, Eri and Hyath by my side, Eri lying on my p, using me as a pillow.

  “Did the four of you have fun?” She said, expression tense. “You were so loud… ugh, my poor little Eri…”

  “Poor? Hardly.” Eri disagreed. “I had my fair share. Nobody lost out. Though Akio was the winner.” She grinned brightly, which embarrassed her mother. “Anyway, you all look worse for wear. Why not let Akio fix you up?”

  “I shall do it. You stay-stay there, you look rather tent.” Shaeu grinned, standing. She went to mom first, and pced a hand oomach. Aether flowed, and she blinked, ing back to full awareness.

  “Wow.” she echoed her daughter. “I feel great all of a sudden. That’s a great talent, daughter-in-w.”

  “Yes, it is, is it not-not, mother-in-w.” Shaeu asserted her status in front of auntie Hana. “Now allow me to se the rest of you.” Even auntie did not refuse, and soon everyone was sain, though I did wonder what was the point of drinking if one didn’t stay drunk.

  “Well, noait for everyone else to return… wait, my phone is ringing.” Since Eri was on my p, Hyath slid a hand into my pocket to retrieve it, though it took a while as she made sure to grope me thhly while doing it, before handing it to me with a grin. On seeing the caller, I was a little surprised. Takakura-san, huh?

  “Good afternoon.” I said. “To what do I owe the pleasure of your call?”

  “I will cut to the chase.” He eschewed the pleasantries. “I know you are already in Kyoto. I arrived earlier, and have already had fruitful discussions with one fa. And they wish to meet you. e to Ryōan-ji as soon as you . Kudou-san, head of the fa, he wishes to see you with his own eyes. After all, he does love his granddaughter so.”

  Kudou Yasuhide? Yeah, I did perform Chirurgery on Kudou Shiori when I did the three granddaughters of Takakura-san… Well, I don’t think I turn down this opportunity. I agreed to attend forthwith, and hung up. “All right then. Shaeu, Hyath, you two are with me. Grulgor, Aliyah, Trey, you three are in charge of security. When everyone else returns, let them know where we went.”

  “Aww, I ’t e?” My sis pined, but I shook my head. “Not this time. Don’t worry, your time to shine will e. You and Eri hang out, talk to the irls.”

  “Fine.” She sighed. “That reminds me… we should check to see if there’s any more info on that guerril cert…”

  “All right then. This is a big deal, so we o do the best we .” Shaeu and Hyath nodded. And with that we set out for the docks, for a boat to take us back to Kyoto proper…

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